Healthy donor. The donor would need to meet brain death criteria, and have a normal functioning heart. Certain systemic diseases would need to be excluded such as severe hypertension and atherosclerosis.

Deceased donor. You need a deceased donor with a healthy heart. Someone who passed away and decided to give the gift of life by passing on his vital organs to others. They must have healthy hearts with clean coronary arteries, be of comparable size and an immunological match to the patient who needs the transplant.

Most are buried. Heart transplants are done using hearts from patient that have become brain dead. After organ removal the bodies may or may not require an autopsy; this is up to the local medical examiner. Later they are buried or cremated depending on the wishes of the family.
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Unlikely. From a strictly science point of view no. I would certainly not worry about this is someone needed or had a heart transplant. However, so much of life is a mystery. There is so much we don't understand and science is still a baby itself when it comes to explaining everything we experience. It would be hard to study your question and i suspect it has never been scientifically looked at.
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Variable. Since all heart donors are deceased, it is very unusual for the recipient to have known the donor, but this may have occurred in a small number of cases. It would depend on what relationship existed prior to death and donation. In addition, there may be attempts to contact donor families with mutual consent.
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NO. Transplantation of organs is a very important life saving procedure, thousands of patients are waiting ( and die also due to lack of ) for organ donors.No charge to the donor family and one who gets will be thankful for saving the life, along with the team that performs.All the persons who want to donate their organs should carry a cord in their pocket, in the event of death, organs could be used.
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Recipient pays costs. All tests/procedures that are conducted solely for the purpose of possible organ donation (versus treatment of the patient's illness) are ultimately charged to the organ procurement organization (opo). They are averaged to determine an "acquisition cost" for each organ that the recipient's insurance must pay. Of course, bills may be sent to the wrong party - in error - they need to be corrected.
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No. The organ recipient needs proper medical insurance coverage for a transplant to take place. In certain cases such as a mother giving part of her liver to her child, she may carry the pertinent insurance. No deceased donors are required to pay for the recipient medical procedures. Conceivably, a wealthy donor family could volunteer to contribute, but that would be most unusual.
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Heart failure. The common background of any need for organ transplantion is the recipient organ fialure. For heart tranplant, the indicationis as well is heart fialure non responsive to medical management. Many diseases may damage the heart with death of the functional muscle cells. The most common of those diseases is ischemia, i.e. Coronary artery disease.
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Transplant. If someone is sick enough to need a heart transplant, then the mortality is 100% without transplant. The surgery itself carries about 3-10 %ortality which is better than not having the transplant.
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Unlikely. Dying during the surgery is very unlikely. Risk of death comes after the surgery usually from blood clots that causes stroke , lung and kidney failure . Bleeding can also be life threathening but often can be controlled.
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No. Type 4 truncus arteriosus is also known as pseudotruncus. It is typically repaired surgically, not with a transplant. If a patient has a failed surgical repair a transplant is sometimes an option. A transplant is not a cure, as it is a medical condition itself that has to be managed closely. Rejection is always to be feared, and anti-rejection medication can have troubling side effects.
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Most are buried. Heart transplants are done using hearts from patient that have become brain dead. After organ removal the bodies may or may not require an autopsy; this is up to the local medical examiner. Later they are buried or cremated depending on the wishes of the family.
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Unlikely. From a strictly science point of view no. I would certainly not worry about this is someone needed or had a heart transplant. However, so much of life is a mystery. There is so much we don't understand and science is still a baby itself when it comes to explaining everything we experience. It would be hard to study your question and i suspect it has never been scientifically looked at.
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Variable. Since all heart donors are deceased, it is very unusual for the recipient to have known the donor, but this may have occurred in a small number of cases. It would depend on what relationship existed prior to death and donation. In addition, there may be attempts to contact donor families with mutual consent.
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NO. Transplantation of organs is a very important life saving procedure, thousands of patients are waiting ( and die also due to lack of ) for organ donors.No charge to the donor family and one who gets will be thankful for saving the life, along with the team that performs.All the persons who want to donate their organs should carry a cord in their pocket, in the event of death, organs could be used.
Read more...

Recipient pays costs. All tests/procedures that are conducted solely for the purpose of possible organ donation (versus treatment of the patient's illness) are ultimately charged to the organ procurement organization (opo). They are averaged to determine an "acquisition cost" for each organ that the recipient's insurance must pay. Of course, bills may be sent to the wrong party - in error - they need to be corrected.
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No. The organ recipient needs proper medical insurance coverage for a transplant to take place. In certain cases such as a mother giving part of her liver to her child, she may carry the pertinent insurance. No deceased donors are required to pay for the recipient medical procedures. Conceivably, a wealthy donor family could volunteer to contribute, but that would be most unusual.
Read more...

Heart failure. The common background of any need for organ transplantion is the recipient organ fialure. For heart tranplant, the indicationis as well is heart fialure non responsive to medical management. Many diseases may damage the heart with death of the functional muscle cells. The most common of those diseases is ischemia, i.e. Coronary artery disease.
Read more...

Transplant. If someone is sick enough to need a heart transplant, then the mortality is 100% without transplant. The surgery itself carries about 3-10 %ortality which is better than not having the transplant.
Read more...

Unlikely. Dying during the surgery is very unlikely. Risk of death comes after the surgery usually from blood clots that causes stroke , lung and kidney failure . Bleeding can also be life threathening but often can be controlled.
Read more...

No. Type 4 truncus arteriosus is also known as pseudotruncus. It is typically repaired surgically, not with a transplant. If a patient has a failed surgical repair a transplant is sometimes an option. A transplant is not a cure, as it is a medical condition itself that has to be managed closely. Rejection is always to be feared, and anti-rejection medication can have troubling side effects.
Read more...